Bending Spoons Buys File Sharing Service WeTransfer

Italian app developer Bending Spoons has bought file-sharing platform WeTransfer, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday, as the Milan-based tech company presses ahead with a string of deals for software firms. From a report: The deal, for which financial details were not disclosed, is the fifth acquisition this year by Bending Spoons, which in February raised $155 million through a capital increase, taking the company's valuation to $2.55 billion. [...] The WeTransfer service enables its users to transfer large files online. It has 600,000 subscribers and 80 million monthly active users, according to data included in the statement. WeTransfer is the latest of several acquisitions by Bending Spoons. It bought note-taking service Evernote in November 2022.

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[Applehu Akbar]

Feed that headline into any of the AIs currently on the market, and they would probably short out.

I have no idea how...

[ebunga]

I have no idea how Bending Spoons will enshittify WeTransfer. It's already terrible.

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[deKernel]

Don't worry, they will simply jack up the price like they did for Evernote.

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[tlhIngan]

I have no idea how Bending Spoons will enshittify WeTransfer. It's already terrible.

There's dozens of ways they can do it. WeTransfer is one of the cleaner file locker services out there. Just click the download and it downloads at relatively high speed.

I've seen worse. They could fill it with dozens of ads with fake download buttons. They could make you click through a dozen pages with a 15 second wait between them. They could make download speeds of 10kbps or lower. They could require you to download an e

A company I never heard of ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Buys a website I never heard of.

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[ebunga]

How fortunate you don't receive 97 different pieces of spam each day telling you about a new WeTransfer incoming request where you just need to login to totallyrealtrustuswhenwesayitiswetransfer.ru with your name, last three addresses, complete job history, copy of your photo id, a recording of you saying a special security phrase, date of birth, your mother's maiden name, and to make sure you don't get hacked, your facebook login details.

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[tlhIngan]

Just another file locker service. There's dozens of them. Not sure why anyone would want any specific one, or buy one, when they could just set up their own.

Wetransfer is very useful

[ZERO1ZERO]

I use wetransfer all the time since nobody has come up with a better solution as to how to share a file with someone else on the internet yet. Or sometimes multiple files and often hundred of gb of data worth. I have a subdomain.wetransfer.com and people can just upload to there and i get the files. Anything more complicated than that is too difficult to use and it doesnâ(TM)t get used.

Secure file sharing platform WeTransfer

[Mirnotoriety]

A secure file sharing platform using email and web protocols. What could possible go wrong. According to the website, taking two hours to transfer 400 MB.